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Recent advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) have demonstrated its applicability across various domains, including robotics, healthcare, energy optimization, and autonomous driving. However, a critical question remains: How…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Adithya Mohan , Dominik Rößle , Daniel Cremers , Torsten Schön

Data poisoning attacks -- where an adversary can modify a small fraction of training data, with the goal of forcing the trained classifier to high loss -- are an important threat for machine learning in many applications. While a body of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yizhen Wang , Somesh Jha , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Data poisoning backdoor attacks can cause undesirable behaviors in large language models (LLMs), and defending against them is of increasing importance. Existing defense mechanisms often assume that only one type of trigger is adopted by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Victoria Graf , Qin Liu , Muhao Chen

Iterative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a widely used paradigm for aligning Large Language Models on reasoning tasks. Existing approaches typically rely on Best-of-N sampling ($N\geq8$) to mine positive trajectories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun Rao , Zixiong Yu , Xuebo Liu , Guhan Chen , Jing Li , Hejin Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Xiaojun Meng , Min Zhang

Fair machine learning seeks to mitigate model prediction bias against certain demographic subgroups such as elder and female. Recently, fair representation learning (FRL) trained by deep neural networks has demonstrated superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Tianci Liu , Haoyu Wang , Feijie Wu , Hengtong Zhang , Pan Li , Lu Su , Jing Gao

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Federated Learning is vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, where malicious clients can inject poisoned updates to influence the global model's behavior. While existing defense mechanisms have made notable progress, they fail to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Georgios Syros , Anshuman Suri , Farinaz Koushanfar , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Machine learning models trained on data from the outside world can be corrupted by data poisoning attacks that inject malicious points into the models' training sets. A common defense against these attacks is data sanitization: first filter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-06 Pang Wei Koh , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Federated learning is vulnerable to various attacks, such as model poisoning and backdoor attacks, even if some existing defense strategies are used. To address this challenge, we propose an attack-adaptive aggregation strategy to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ching Pui Wan , Qifeng Chen

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

As machine learning becomes widely used for automated decisions, attackers have strong incentives to manipulate the results and models generated by machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we perform the first systematic study of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Matthew Jagielski , Alina Oprea , Battista Biggio , Chang Liu , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Bo Li

Modern society is getting accustomed to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for a variety of applications that involves security-critical user data and information transfers. In the lower end of the spectrum, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Avani Dave Nilanjan Banerjee Chintan Patel

Safety-critical domains like healthcare rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) for prediction, yet DNNs remain vulnerable to evasion attacks. Anomaly detectors (ADs) are widely used to protect DNNs, but conventional ADs are trained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mohammed Elnawawy , Gargi Mitra , Shahrear Iqbal , Karthik Pattabiraman

The adversarial attacks against deep neural networks on computer vision tasks have spawned many new technologies that help protect models from avoiding false predictions. Recently, word-level adversarial attacks on deep models of Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhaoyang Wang , Hongtao Wang

We present a novel weighted average model based on the mixture of experts (MoE) concept to provide robustness in Federated learning (FL) against the poisoned/corrupted/outdated local models. These threats along with the non-IID nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Sayed Ehsan Etesami , Alberto Leon Garcia

Conformal prediction provides model-agnostic and distribution-free uncertainty quantification through prediction sets that are guaranteed to include the ground truth with any user-specified probability. Yet, conformal prediction is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

With the rise of third parties in the machine learning pipeline, the service provider in "Machine Learning as a Service" (MLaaS), or external data contributors in online learning, or the retraining of existing models, the need to ensure the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jialin Wen , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Minhui Xue , Alina Oprea , Haifeng Qian

Machine learning systems are deployed in critical settings, but they might fail in unexpected ways, impacting the accuracy of their predictions. Poisoning attacks against machine learning induce adversarial modification of data used by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Matthew Jagielski , Giorgio Severi , Niklas Pousette Harger , Alina Oprea

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries corrupt the global aggregation results and cause denial-of-service (DoS). Unlike recent model poisoning attacks that optimize the amplitude of malicious…

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